1. Volume 131, Issue 6, Pages 1718-1725 (June 2007)
Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-Positive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Lung Infection in Patients With Cystic Fibrosis 
Elizur Arnon , MD, Orscheln Rachel C. , MD, Ferkol Thomas W. , MD, Atkinson Jeffrey J. , MD, Dunne W. Michael , PhD, Buller Richard S. , PhD, Armstrong Jon R. , MS, Mardis Elaine R. , PhD, Storch Gregory A. , MD, Cannon Carolyn L. , MD, PhD 
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2. Figure 1
Radiographic evidence of lung abscess secondary to PVL+ MRSA in two adolescent CF patients. Top left, A, and bottom left, D: Chest radiographs obtained before hospital admission in case 1 and case 2, respectively. Top center, B, and bottom center, E. Chest radiographs obtained during hospitalization that showed interval development of cavitary lesions in the left upper lobe in case 1 and in the left lower lobe in case 2. Top right, C, and bottom right, F. CT of the chest of case 1 and case 2 shortly after hospital admission that demonstrated thick-walled, contrast-enhancing cavitary lesions in the left upper lobe and left lower lobe, respectively.
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3. Figure 2
Increasing incidence of PVL+ MRSA in CF patients followed up at St. Louis Children's Hospital during a 4-year period. CA = CA-MRSA; HA = HA-MRSA.
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4. Figure 3
Characteristics of MRSA isolates from CF patients classified according to presence of absence of clindamycin susceptibility (S) [white boxes, sensitivity not determined; light gray, sensitive; dark gray, resistant (R)], PVL gene, SCC-mec type, and sequence type as determined by MLST. ND = not determined; clinda (S) = clindamycin susceptable; clinda (R) = clindamycin resistant; ST5 = sequence type 5; ST8 = sequence type 8. *Clinda = clindamycin. **constitutive resistance.
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5. Figure 4
Characteristics of CF MRSA isolates analyzed by repetitive-sequence PCR, based on the presence of the PVL gene, SCC-mec type, and clindamycin susceptibility. Clindamycin resistance is further defined as inducible (I) or constituitive (C). The scale in the left margin shows percentage relatedness.
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